Michael Phelps to Host SNL

America’s Golden Boy, Olympian Michael Phelps, is set to host the 34th Season Opener of NBC’s Saturday Night Live on September 9, 2008. I’m eager to see whether Phelps can give a gold medal comedic performance on this struggling but infamous sketch series.

Will Phelp’s sink or swim as an actor? Could he make the transition from athlete to comedic actor someday? We’ll see, but some natural born athletes are also natural born comedians—Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, OJ Simpson, Fred Dryer, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and swimming champ Ester Williams, just to name a few. Others should not have “gone there”, such as Joe Namoth and Bruce Jenner. However, Phelps does appear to have a “funny guy” persona about him, so I’m predicting a great night of SNL. A sketch on his eating habits would be very amusing.